Article written by Gerhard Grundhammer

Aliicia Molik is ranked on position no 89 among the world's top tennis players and is undoubtedly one of Australia's best woman players.

Just like the Aussie world No 1, Leyton Hewitt, Alicia comes from Adelaide in South Australia and kicked off this year in great style, making the final of the Hopman Cup before becoming the first Australian woman to win a WTA singles title since Jelena Dokic left the country.

The 1.83 meters tall girl (6`0``) got one of the biggest first-serves in the womens game, but it seems as her serve tends to let her down on crucial points. Speaking of inconsistance of her first serve from point to point, her second serve seems to change from match to match, and there is a simple rule to follow: The higher ranked her opponent is, the slower gets her second serve!

But not only top players seem to frighten Alicia who is 1-12 to top10 players in her career, if their name is not Hantuchova........ Daniela seems to be her favourite opponent as she beat her twice this year. The other current top ten player, the 22 year old beat, was unfortunately Jelena Dokic. That match happened at Birmingham 2001 and Alicia was successful 4-6, 6-3 and 6-3 :-( Molik has also huge problems against the power hitters on the circult, as she is down 0-5 since 2002 to these girls (williams, pierce and tulyaganova are the names of the girls of that fraction who beat her in the last 12 months)

The australian no2 played 13 Grand Slam tournamets in her career, never got past the 4th round, and even her last 3rd round appearence happened more than a year ago, at the US-Open 2001. She entered the Nasdaq 100 last year, trying to defend her career high ranking position of no45 but failed as she lost her opening match to Tatiana Terebiynis in straight sets.

To proceed to the fourth round here at Miami, the Australian Open Girls Doubles Champion from 1998 beat Barbara Schett in her opening round 6-7, 6-2 and 7-6 (!), Daniela Hanutchova 2-6, 7-5 and 6-0 (!!) and finally russias best doubles player Likhovtseva in straight sets.

Undoubtably a great run from the australian, and even more undoubtably its well time for this run to be stopped by the former australian Jelena Dokic, who has the game, who has the talent and who seems to even have her willpower back to beat Alicia Molik 6-2 and 6-1!

The match will be played today at about noon local time which is 5pm in London, 6pm in Belgrade and tuesday 3.30 pm at Adelaide.